Scope and Contents [1-2] SIR EDWARD SABINE (1788-1883) (General). Letters to and from Alfred Newton (n.d.) [3-6] WILLIAM HERBERT ST. QUINTIN (1851-1933) (Scampston Hall, Rillington, York). Letters (1883-89) [7-8] GEORGE SAMUEL SALE (1831-1922) (Fellow of Trinity, 1856-64; to New Zealand 1860, Professor of Classics, Otago University, 1870-1908). Letters (1869-71) [9-11] C.S. SALMON (Captain; brother of John D. Salmon). Letters (1861) [12-16] JOHN DREW SALMON (1802-59) (company manager, ornithologist, bot-...

Scope and Contents [1-4] J.W. TAYLER (Kingswear, Dartmouth). Letters to W. Nevill, Alfred Newton (1868-69) [5-6] W.H. TAYLER (Doctor of Medicine). Letters (1869) [7-16] EDWARD CAVENDISH TAYLOR (1831- ) (clergyman). Letters (1862-84) [17-18] GEORGE TAYLOR (clergyman). Letters (1879) [19] GEORGE CAVENDISH TAYLOR (military writer). Letter (1869) [20-26] JAMES TAYLOR (probably (1823-1913), surgeon on Scottish whalers 1856- 61; botanist, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay). Letters (1860-65) [27] JOHN ELLOR TAYLOR...

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[1-15] HENRY MORRIS UPCHER (1839-1921) (Sheringham Hall, Norfolk). Letters (1865-88) [16-20] RICHARD JOHN USSHER(1841-1913) (Irish naturalist). Letters (1884)

Scope and Contents [1-89] JOHN VAN VOORST (1804-98) (publisher). Letters to Alfred Newton (1854- 82); letters to him, from Sir William Jardine, James Tiffin, Cecil Smith (1867-70) [90] C.H. VAN ZYL (solicitor) Letter (1874) [91-93] JOHN VENN (1834-1923) (logician, man of letters). Letters (1881) [94-98] GEORGE HENRY VERRALL (1848-1911) (entomologist). Letters (1871) [99-103] JULES PIERRE VERREAUX (1807-73) (botanist, ornithologist). Letters (1870-71) [104-107] SIR WILLIAM GEORGE GRANVILLE VENABLES VERNON-...

Scope and Contents [1-24] WILLIAM WARWICK WAGSTAFFE (1843-1910) (surgeon, medical writer). Letters (1864-85) [25] ALFRED D. WALKER (Chester). Letter (1871) [26-47] DAVID WALKER (1837-1917) (surgeon, naturalist). Letters (1858-62) [48-50] FRANCIS AUGUSTUS WALKER (1841-1905) (clergyman, plant collector). Letters (1880-89) [51-55] JOSIAH WALKER (1805-82) (Vicar, Wood Ditton, Cambs., 1847-80). Letters (1862-68) [56-63] SAMUEL ABRAHAM WALKER (1809-79) (clergyman, writer on missions). Letters (1884-85) [64-130]...

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[1-41] WILLIAM YARRELL (1784-1856) (zoologist). Letters to and from Alfred Newton (1851-56)

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Letter from the Royal Society notifying Bateson that he had been awarded the Darwin Medal for 1904, along with letters of congratulations.

Correspondents congratulating Bateson on the award include Francis Darwin, [Adam] Sedgwick, William Huggins, Edith Rebecca Saunders, Alfred Newton, Charles S. Myers, F.D. Godman, Oliver Lodge, Marion Bidder, and Daniel T. MacDougal.

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Correspondence preserved on account of its philatelic interest, and comprising mainly postcards addressed to F.J.H. Jenkinson, Librarian, and other members of the Library staff, together with a few addressed to Alfred Newton, Professor of Zoology, and other members of the University. The senders were booksellers or private individuals. A few of the postcards are unsigned or signed only with initials.

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Correspondence with Sir Francis Galton, 1889-1893, Alfred Newton, 1890, and Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, 1892 and undated.

Scope and Contents [1-5] Notebooks ['Garefowl books', begun by John Wolley but after his death taken over by AN, extensively annotated by him and continued in later notebooks.] [1] 'This book commenced in Reykiavik 30th April 1858 by me, John Wolley junr. – intended for notes on Alca impennis'. [To 21 JUN 1858]. [2] 'Begun in Iceland 22 June 1858 finished 13 July 1858'. [3] 'Begun at Kyrkjuvogr, 13 July 1858'. Continued by AN to 1884. Many letters copied in by AN; also: HUGH REID (Doncaster, taxidermist)....

Scope and Contents [1-4] Notebooks [1-2] 'Otidiana. Published notice book': pp. 1-136, pp. 137-244, including (in [2]), SIR CHARLES HENRY JOHN ANDERSON (1804-91) (9th Baronet, writer, church restorer). Letter to Alfred Newton (1881). [3] 'Otidiana. MS. Record book'. Including transcripts of many letters. [4] 'Hear-say book', with (ii-iv) JOSEPH CLARKE (Saffron Walden). Letters (1880) [5-10] MSS of lectures, articles, letters [5] 'The bustard in Britain', for Cambridge Naturalists' Society, MAY 1854. [6] AN,...

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.

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Letters to Owen Seaman, many accepting or declining invitations to a dinner of the Royal Literary Fund in 1912.

Scope and Contents The collection of signed autograph letters was compiled by Miss Margaret Cave, (later Turville-Petre), chiefly in the 1890s. It has been arranged in the following series: MS Add.10462/1/1-16, letters received by the Cave family, 1882-1897, including Margaret and her parents; subsequently a few letters received by her and her husband, Oswald Turville-Petre, 1912-14; MS Add.10462/2/1-16, letters received from a Cave family friend, Alfred Newton, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and...

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MS ornithological index to Thomas Wright, Vocabularies, illustrating the condition and manners of our forefathers …from the tenth century to the fifteenth, privately printed, 1857-73. Latin /Old English names of birds.

Scope and Contents Collection of his ornithological pamphlets and printed papers. Presented to the Newton Library by L.A. Curtis Edwards, Wisbech Museum, 1942 [1] Psittaci novae speciei ad conurum genus pertinentis descriptio, Thetford, 1859. [2] Suggestions for saving parts of the skeletons of birds (reprinted from the Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1860. [3] 'Suggestions for forming collections of birds' eggs', in Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, [1860], pp. 10-22. [4] On the possibility of...

Scope and Contents [1-204] Correspondence [1] HERMAN ALBARDE (1826-98) (Dutch lawyer, zoologist). Letter (1889) [2] BERNARD ALTUM(1824-1900) (German zoologist, ornithologist, forestry scientist). Letter (1888) [3] OLIVER V. APLIN. Letter (1888) [4] J. ARIMEO. Letter to 4th Lord Lilford (1888) [5] VALENTINE BALL (1843-95) (geologist, professor, writer). Letter (1888) [6] RICHARD MANLIFFE BARRINGTON(1849-1915) (Irish land valuer, botanist). Letter (1888) [7] C. BARTLETT (Zoological Society's Gardens). Letter...

Scope and Contents [1-13] Photographs of Moa skeletons in [?]Christchurch Museum, New Zealand, taken by D.L. Mundy of Christchurch, 25 OCT 1867. Figure in [1] identified by AN as 'Mr. Fuller'. [14] Government Buildings and Museum, Christchurch, by D.L. Mundy, 4 FEB 1868. [15] D.L. Mundy, photograph of stuffed Kiwi, 1868. [16-22] Skeleton of Moa Dinornis robustus presented to Yorkshire Philosophical Society Museum by J.H. Gibson, by Monkhouse & Co., Photographers, York, c.1864; with skeletons of Ostrich,...

Scope and Contents [1] GERARD BLASIUS (1625-92) (Dutch anatomist). Engraving by A. v. Zylvelt. [2] JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH (1752-1840) (German physician, physiologist, anthropologist). Engraving. [3] JOHN JAMES LOUIS BONHOTE (1875-1922) (ornithologist). Photograph by Walery. [4] SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE (1783-1862) (1st Baronet, physiologist, surgeon). Photograph by Maull & Polyblank. [5] JULIUS VICTOR CARUS (1823-1903) (German zoologist, comparative anatomist, entomologist). Photograph by W....

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3 volumes, 'Register of the weather and birds seen. Kept at Elveden in Suffolk by A. & E.N.' Daily weather statistics and birds seen. [1] 1850-52; [2] 1852-57, with loose extracts from Elveden Hall game book, 1821-32, statistics of birds nesting at Elveden, 1843-49, 1850-51, 1852-59, woodlarks seen at Elveden, 1850-59; [3] 1857-60. With [4] Notebook of Edward Newton, weather statistics at Elveden, JUN - DEC 1849; 'Principal events of the year 1850', JAN - 4 APR only.

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1 volume, Eggs obtained in St. Croix 1857 and Iceland 1858: by Alfred Newton. Paginated, pp. 101-145.

Scope and Contents [1] Scrapbook 'Bird Preservation', Parliamentary reports, Bills, motions; newscuttings, leaflets, committee reports, 1869-80. [2] RSPCA, invitation to meeting of Association for the Protection of Sea Birds, 1869. [3] Printed invitation to same meeting, about 'Proposed Act for the preservation of sea birds', 10 MAR 1869, with MS notes on proposed clauses and voting. [4] Motions proposed at meeting, 10 MAR 1869. [5] Printed appeal 'To the members of the Association for the protection of sea...